Religious of the Assumption - USA

06/03/2026

Nineteen years since Mother Marie Eugenie’s canonization! Let us give thanks and rejoice!

On the 3rd June will be nineteen years thar Benedict XVI canonized Mother Marie-Eugénie, foundress of the Religious of the Assumption. 💜 Her message is still timely: holiness is not found in the extraordinary, but in living each day with Christ. 🌸
👉 Rediscover her legacy in our article: https://assumpta.org/en/news/19th-anniversary-of-the-canonization-mother-marie-eugenie-a-saint-for-today

06/02/2026

Remembering with love and gratitude our dear Sr. Diana Wauters on the 2nd anniversary of her death. We continue to hold you close in our hearts. Rest in peace, dear Diana.
https://youtu.be/dnSFH9k8PFs?si=Y4mLWqbK59LfFAPZ
This video was shown at her Memorial Mass at St. Thomas More parish in Chaparral, NM where she lived and served for many years.

Pictures from various times in the life of Sr. Diana in Chaparral a...

05/30/2026

Our Worcester Sisters joined our Assumptionist brothers to celebrate Memorial Day!

05/29/2026

The Chaparral Sisters were so happy to welcome Sr. Beatrice for a visit! Our desert landscape is so different from her Worcester home. Thank you for your time, your openness, your good cheer and interest in our life!

05/27/2026

LCWR welcomes the profound contribution of Pope Leo XIV offered in the encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas.” LCWR fully embraces the work and looks forward to engaging in prayer, reflection, study and implementation in solidarity with the synodal church as we work towards the Beloved Community. In this process, LCWR will continue to deepen our understanding and practice of a church in the vision of Vatican Council II, grounded in the Gospel and Catholic Social Teaching.

This teaching situates the current planetary and human community in the framework of choice: humans can choose a path of downward spiral in its disregard for the dignity of all life and the magnificence of human life, intelligence, creativity, spirituality and compassion or we can choose to build a community in which all of life flourishes.

Pope Leo highlights the consequences of human choice-making including an unprecedented acknowledgement of the Catholic Church’s participation in slavery. LCWR resonates with this as we claim the participation of countless religious congregations of women in this country who refused admission of women of color. Thank you, Pope Leo, for your ongoing witness to truth, love, peace and justice that compels us to examine our conscience and deepen our consciousness as missionary disciples.

05/25/2026

📣 Pope Leo XIV presents 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒔: «Building a world where everyone can "flourish" requires courageous co-responsibility». 🌍 At the center is the dignity of the human being as a criterion for guiding technical progress.
⚠️ Faced with the risks of a culture marked by power, domination and war, the document proposes the horizon of a civilization of love founded on justice, dialogue and shared responsibility. 🤝

📌 Discover more here: https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/magnifica-humanitas.html

05/22/2026

Thank you to the group of students, faculty and staff from Assumption University, Worcester that visited with our Chaparral community yesterday as part of their immersion experience on the Border. Bienvenidos y gracias!

05/20/2026

📣 : the Document will be presented on 25 May 2026 at 11.30, in the Synod Hall of the Vatican City. With Intervention and blessing of Pope Leo XIV! 🙏
📺 The event will be broadcast online! https://www.youtube.com/

🎙 The speakers will be:
· Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith;
· Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development;
· Professor Anna Rowlands, political theology, including the Social Doctrine of the Church, and theological ethics of human migrations, Department of Theology and Religion of Durham University, United Kingdom;
· Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, United States of America, and head of research on the interpretability of artificial intelligence;
· Professor Leocadie Lushombo, i.t., political theology and Catholic social teaching, Jesuit School of Theology / Santa Clara University, California.

Conclusion from Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.

05/19/2026